“It’s very difficult to look inside ourselves and see what’s going on in there, particularly to see what we’re unaware of,” write Shakti and Gina. “That’s why it’s important to look at our relationships as mirrors of our inner processes. Used this way, relationships become one of the most valuable sources of healing and teaching in our lives.”

We hope you’ll enjoy this short excerpt from the book — Shakti’s first in nearly fifteen years.(READ MORE)

We habitually view work and play as mutually exclusive opposites. But what if we didn’t? What if we could manifest whatever our heart desires from a place of fun, joy, and ease? What if having more fun could mean getting more done?

Shakti Gawain has focused most of her work — most of her life — on the area of relationships, specifically on discovering how our relationships can become a path to consciousness, healing, and growth. And she has finally written a book that sums up what she’s been living and teaching for decades.

Reading The Relationship Handbook is just like taking a workshop or seminar with Shakti and Gina Vucci, her collaborator and coauthor, as our guides. We see immediately that this book, this approach to our relationships in our lives, is unique and powerful. It is unique because all the processes it describes take place within us. There isn’t a chapter on communication with others, and it isn’t necessary for anyone other than ourselves to change before we can create lasting relationships that work beautifully for us.